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Andrew Boss

Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

Abstract

Andrew Boss and I have been close friends since boyhood, and it is a most delightful privilege to be given opportunity to participate in this occasion which recognizes the service he has rendered agriculture.

Our honored guest is a pure bred Scotchman, both his mother and father immigrating from Scotland. This connotes physical strength and the spirit of adventure and determination. His father was a strong, vigorous man—full six feet in height. He entertained a standard of living and of human relationship that indicated character and that developed character. No dime novel, Saturday Ledger, or Police Gazette ever entered his well ordered and well managed farm home, but rather books by such authors as Scott, Burns, Dickens, and the like. His mother—that she could be here just for a moment that her radiant smile could touch this gathering—would quickly reveal the love and tenderness which actuated her life and the atmosphere in which she raised her children.